Mint tales

Book>> The Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World By Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane London 2008 Price Rs 595

Climate cynic busted

Leaked documents>> Climate change • US

Texts of prey

Cell Phone >> Financial institutions • The US

Bengal stops funds to pollution board

Funds change destination

A desperate need for hard cash

A utlitarian look at cheap housing

LOW-COST HOUSING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES G C Mathur Publisher: Centre for Science & Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing …

WHO seeks increase in AIDS funds

The World Health Organisation has called for enhanced spending and a joint UN initiative to combat the threat of AIDS.

Clean-up plan seems futile

A massive project holds out no guarantee that it can make river water potable

Coalition lor a cause

US activists demand a say in the government's modus operandi in using funds for breast cancer research

UNITED NATIONS

FLOOD HAVOC

NGO-AIDs cell disbanded

The show is over

Iridium declares bankruptcy and is forced to destroy its 66 satellites in space

Talking grants

Gem of a concept

Caught in a trap

World's poorest nations can't have the much needed investment for growth

Autonomy issue

ICMR needs funds and teeth

Relieved? Not quite

South Asia

Grassroots NGOs by women for women

Book>> Grassroots ngos by Women for Women by Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, Suzanne Feeney, Bhagyashree Ranade

TRACK THE MONEY

No world watch

Tax on trash

No funds for rural project